Chapter 46: Woman Adventurer
As soon as the liquor was brought in, all the people there started gulping it down at once.
I was the only one who wondered if the military and public security were that relaxed about alcohol, and I noticed that even the guards were having a light drink.
As expected, it was not a party where all the soldiers of the military base gathered at once, but rather a banquet where everyone was chatting and drinking at their own stations. Soldiers, who appeared to be lower-ranking, were carrying barrels of sake to various facilities and lodgings.
The sight of people drinking in the daytime reminded me of the end of the year when I was a salaried worker in a previous life.
I wandered around the military base, finding soldiers drinking and talking to them.
I was looking around the military base and found some of the soldiers drinking, so I called out to them, “……That's why we're going to release those adventurers for the time being. We will keep an eye on them, though.
Hmm.”
At an interrogation room, we talked to a soldier in charge of interrogation, who was not in charge of torture (……). It seemed that the group of six adventurers had been tentatively cleared.
The five companions seemed to have thrown everything they thought into the hands of the man in charge, Mr. Leader, and had no response to his interrogations.The leader was interrogated extensively.
After a grueling night of questioning, they decided that they had really just been wandering around with the wrong number of people.
We'll look into it a little more, but we plan to release the leader guy tomorrow morning.
I see.
But that's surprising. Is the captain interested in adventurers?
The soldier in charge of interrogation was also in my unit, and he called me captain.
The most important thing to remember is that you can't be a good adventurer. There are many young noblemen who dream of living freely, fighting freely, traveling freely, and living a life unrestrained by anything.
It would be interesting if there was an adventurer rank system like in games, or a guild system that existed around the world, but unfortunately, there is no such system in this world, so I am not particularly interested in it.
Being an adventurer is a way of life with no guarantees and no stability. I'd rather be an aristocrat of a marquis's family, shaking my hips with a pretty girl.
No way. I've always wanted to go to the Field.
“The field? I went in there once on a military strike mission, but it wasn't very interesting.
The Quardenzes sometimes lead their army to enter the Field, a foggy world where monsters lurk, in order to defeat them.
The field closest to the city of New Nelly is one of the larger ones, so when they go deep into the field, they have to enter with wagons loaded with large amounts of food and weapons. Apparently.
The adventurers who were captured this time came from the royal capital to enter the field near New Nellie City. They seem to be a reasonably skilled bunch. There are adventurer fans among the soldiers from time to time, and they knew the name of the leader of that adventurer gang.
He said, “Oh, well. Six adventurers with magical powers are indeed a conspicuous group, aren't they?
No, it was originally a group of two adventurers. No, it was originally a group of two adventurers, but recently four more adventurers have joined the group, making it a group of six. It seems that you have successfully taken in four newcomers who became adventurers after being inspired by the city's announcement.
I forget whether it was last year or the year before, but in the areas under the direct control of the Levios royal family, including the royal capital, a number of measures were enacted to support adventurers in their efforts to defeat magical beasts in the field I have heard rumors that an increasing number of people have become adventurers because of these measures.
Since the adventurers were originally a group of two, they may not have had much of a chance to think about the number of magic beasts they could take on.
I asked them about their route from the royal capital to New Nellie City, and they were passing through only small towns and villages. So I guess we were able to come this far without it becoming a problem.
I see.
There are not many places like New Nellie City where auxiliary magic circle for magic detection is built into the entire city.
Naturally, small villages and towns would not have such a system.
After I finished talking with the soldiers in charge of interrogation, I wandered around again and met the soldiers who were drinking here and there in the base, and thanked them for their hard work.
As I finished my rounds and was thinking about where to sit and rest, I noticed a pair of eyes staring back at me.
He had dark indigo hair that looked as if it had been dyed by the night sky, a face so beautifully arranged that it made me feel cold, and a short stature that didn't suit him at all.
It was the female adventurer who had just been poked with a spear.
She should have been released from the interrogation room by now, but why is she still inside the military base?
Young master, please be careful.
With a metallic ting, the guards pull out their swords. The guards, who were overjoyed to get free drinks, were completely sober in their tone and movements.
She was visibly dismayed when we noticed the female adventurer and became alert.
What's the matter? What do you want?”
I called out to the adventurer, who neither fled nor approached me.
She seemed to think that I had given her permission to approach, so she quietly approached, stood on her knees a little before me, and placed her fingers on the ground.
Captain,” She said, “Please. Please forgive Mergin. Please forgive Mergin. We are not plotting anything. We are innocent.
I exhale and say shortly, “Who is it?
Who are you?
I thought I had asked two questions in a single sentence: Who are you and who is Melgin?
I am Lupetta. I am an adventurer.
When Lupetta finished, she looked as if she had said all she needed to say.
If it hadn't been for the intervention of an unsuspecting escort, I have a feeling that the two would have continued to glare at each other.
In a panic, Rupetta opened her mouth.
'Melugin is an adventurer with me.
Mergin seems to be the name of the leader of the gang of six adventurers.
Apparently, Lupetta had not yet been informed of the leader's scheduled release tomorrow morning.
When I asked him why he had taken the trouble to appeal directly to me, he said that he had seen me warn the soldier who had tried to hit Lupetta earlier and thought that I was a big man who could talk to him.
I got the feeling that he recognized me as a great military man and did not know that I was a legitimate son of the Quardenze family.
If you are an excellent magician, even if you are a commoner or a 12-year-old boy, you have a good chance of getting a key position in the military.
Come to think of it, when we first went to the bar in Nambonan City, Anna mistakenly thought I was the leader of a group of commoner mercenaries.
Mergin is a very gentle man. He would never rebel.
Saying this, Rupetta listed up the good points of the leader without hesitation.
The tone of her voice, which was a habit of mumbling, clearly showed that she was deeply in love with the leader.
I see, you're worried about your favorite, favorite leader.
Why don't you go to the executioner's block and talk about it?”
I was so caught up in the aura of love that I made a light joke.
But Lupetta did n't seem to take it as a joke, and her complexion her turned blue in no time at all.
I doubt that many people would laugh at the idea of being told to go to the executioner's block by a military leader.
“…Me, Mergin is…!
I'm done talking. Wait for the result.”
As I tried to advance past Lupetta, she stood up with agile movements, moved to the ground a little ahead of my direction of travel, and again went to a kneeling position.
Then she goes from kneeling to a kneeling position.
She then moved from a kneeling position to a kneeling position, “Dear Captain, ……. Please, please help Mergin. Without Mergin, I …….”
Lupetta takes a deep breath in that pose.
Her dignified silver eyes Her stare at me as if to glare at me.
'Forgive me Melugin. If there is anything I can do, I will do it.'
The tears that had been pooling in the corners of my eyes spilled down my cheeks and onto my chin in a single line.
I felt as if my body had entered the process of manufacturing semen at a rapid pace.
As a result of the banquet at the military base, I couldn't bring myself to go back to the castle and decided to stay at the villa ……. Let's call it a scenario.
I tell Lupetta to visit the villa at night.
She seemed to get the message and quietly nodded her head in agreement.
